"Q:The GNOME developers are working on
a native port of Open Office. Why aren't the KDE guys doing the
same?

A: We could do that but we don't want to. We
have among the KDE developers, Khalid Mohamed, who has worked
extensively on StarOffice. He was the one who ported StarOffice to
Linux. According to him, StarOffice comes with a lot of excess
baggage. There is a huge amount of legacy code in there, some even
going back to the DOS days. Essentially, the code is just too big
and unwieldy to be worked on. So, we're concentrating on the
KOffice suite of applications, which are looking quite good. "